If you are one of the 40 million Americans overweight to the point of recommended surgical intervention, the Adjustable Gastric Band (AGB or the band) may be the safest, most effective weight-loss method for you. Unlike conventional weight-loss surgery, which can lead to serious medical complications and nutritional deficiencies, the AGB is a ...
This book is written for real people, by real people, about real stuff! If you're a real person considering weight loss surgery, this book will give you the right information to make the decision, whether or not it's really right for you! If you've already decided on surgery, then we'll tell you what it's really like to live day to day as a weight ...
Are you one of the thousands of North Americans struggling with your weight? Are you overwhelmed by the number of diets on the market and unsure about what steps to take to get fit and healthy once and for all? The "Body Sense Natural Diet" is the answer for you. Unlike most diets, "The Body Sense Natural Diet" offers more than a short term answer ...
It's you against your 30 billion fat cells! These fat cells stay with you forever and can expand to store as much fat as you choose to stash in them. This book aims to tell you how your body works, how it stores energy, how it stores fuel (fat), how it moves around, and how to get it to burn instead of storing it. The book then helps you to take ...
Modeled on the enormously successful "Ultimate Workout Log," this essential 26-week diet log can be tailor-made to any diet or eating regimen and ensures long-term results.
The bestselling author of "8 Minutes in the Morning" now shows readers how to tone the number one trouble zone--hips and thighs--with a two-step process that combines visualizations to prevent emotional eating with a plan to build muscle. 55 photos.
What if you could have slimmer hips, firmer thighs, flatter abs, more defined arms, and clearer, younger-looking skin in just six weeks? Based on years of her groundbreaking research and four clinical trials, Dr. Christine Lydon has developed an innovative diet and exercise regimen to burn fat and alter ones body chemistry, resulting in rapid, ...
This fully revised edition includes information in the effectiveness of high-protein fad diets and diet pills, the potential dangers of the fat substitute Olestra, and 1999 food tables that feature fast-food items.
In this step-by-step, results-oriented plan, the bestselling author of "The Solution" and "The Pathway" reveals a revolutionary way to lose weight and keep it off.
Lewis' popular and successful weight-loss program instructs readers on how to make a healthy blend of nutrition, exercise, and scripture in their daily lives.
A realistic and exciting alternative to the classic "count calories and do sit-ups" approach to weight loss. Easy-to-use techniques help the reader modify eating behavior for life.
A self-published bestseller, now in a new and expanded hardcover edition. Cardiologist Bill Gavin, M.D., needed to do two things: lose weight himself and get his mother off her insulin. Using his medical knowledge and drawing on his own experience, he accomplished both his goals, developing the simplest plan yet for weight loss and long-term ...
The secret to losing waistline pounds and inches quickly is ASAP, an acronym for Awareness, Science, Application, and Persistence. This successful method for achieving a lean body and a flat stomach includes a powerful new concept called superhydration. It's a fact: drinking large amounts of water daily synergizes your eating and exercising, ...
Feed Muscle, Shrink Fat refines how to lose weight with a plan that makes sense and works. With the help of Kathy Smith, readers discover and learn how to implement the scientifically proven, straightforward and incredibly adaptable premise that - by nourishing muscle - you automatically shrink fat.
In this weight-loss program, acclaimed health guru Gary Null criticizes aspects of American culture that he feels contribute to the country's swelling obesity epidemic. He indicts fast food vendors, fad diet promoters, and workaholics. In doing so, he warns of common diet death traps, like drive-thru windows, the sedentary office lifestyle, and ...
A revolutionary alternative to dieting: choose foods according to their fat and fiber content. This book can be used by everyone, not just dieters: men, women, vegetarians, and athletes. Includes a color pull-out centerfold for quick reference and 200 recipes.
This diet is based on modern biochemical research that explains how to work with one's own body chemistry to control food cravings and lose weight permanently.
Based on new understanding of how the human body regulates hunger, this national bestseller--now updated by the author--presents a surprisingly simple way to lose weight without giving up favorite foods.
Following the amazing success of his bestselling "8 Minutes in the Morning," America's #1 online weight loss specialist is back with an even simpler way to lose weight with his patented formula. Full-color throughout.
Addressing the many dimensions of "chronic dieting, " "Life Inside the "Thin" Cage" offers a wake-up call and practical steps to those who need healing.
Protein, fruits and vegetables, and whole grains are the basic elements of this weight loss plan by nutritionist/researcher Dr. David Heber. And also shakes! Dr. Heber is a respected researcher and has worked in the field of obesity--and he provides a supportive approach and a readable rationale for his approach to dieting and health. Dr. Heber ...
This examination of the physical, psychological, and cultural reasons for poor nutrition includes a questionnaire that enables readers to discover their attitudes about food, body image, and overall well-being. A 28-day cognitive restructuring plan is designed to teach dieters how to nullify habitual food cravings. The guide's "food energy ladder" ...
The bestselling author of "The Perfect Recipe" shares her secret for dumping pounds without dieting--and 250 recipes that follow her new way of eating.
The men and women who run Weight Watchers meetings are success stories themselves: they have all lost weight, and kept it off! Their tried-and-true, in the trenches tips for weight loss and maintenance are pithy and to the point and, most importantly, they work. This collection of tips proves once again that nothing helps like advice from the ...
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